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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797 (search)
ave in my hand two accounts: one a comparative state of the export trade of England to its colonies, as it stood in the year 1704, and as it stood in the year 1772; the other a state of the export trade of this country to its colonies alone, as it stood in 1772, compared with the whole trade of England to all parts of the world (the colonies included) in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers: the latter period from the accounts on your table, the earlier from an original manuscript of Davenant, who first established the inspector-general's office. which has been ever since his time so abundant a source of parliamentary information. The export trade to the colonies consists of three great branches. The African, which, terminating almost wholly in the colonies, must be put to the account of their commerce; the West Indian; and the North American. All these are so interwoven that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole; and if not entirel
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trade and plantations, boards of (search)
Trade and plantations, boards of The first of these commissions was suggested by Charles Davenant, son of Sir William Davenant, and an English author of note. He proposed, in an essay, that the care of the American colonies should be made the province of a select number of lords and gentlemen of reputation both for parts and fortunes ; and suggested that it would be in their power to put things into a form and order of government that should always preserve these countries in obedience to the crown and dependence upon the kingdom. At the same time, he advocated the keeping of the conditions of their charters sacred and inviolate. A standing council of commerce had been established, but in 1673 it was dropped. From that time until 1696 all disputes and regulations relating to commerce and the colonies were usually referred to a committee of the privy council. The board of trade and plantations was established by King William III. in that year. It consisted of a first lord